What Is Happening in China?

The Chinese media launched an offensive promoting the claim that, I quote, demonstrations in Europe and South America are the direct result of Western tolerance for Hong Kong unrest. What cannot but strike the eye here is that the communist China discreetly plays on the solidarity of those in power all around the world against rebellious populations. This strange protest wave enables us to take a fresh look at the fall of the Berlin Wall. The large majority of those who protest against the communist regimes had in mind was not simply capitalism. They express a growing dissatisfaction that cannot be channeled into established modes of political representation.What awaits us is a society of permanent state of exception and civil unrest.